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Sen. Josh McKoon and Rep. Sam Teasley don’t like the ads we published in their hometown newspapers on Monday.

Apparently, these two Georgia lawmakers stopped working on their bill after they came up with the clever title: “The Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”

These bills do nothing to restore religious freedom, which is protected by the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. Instead, these bills would open the door to people who would use their religion as an excuse to ignore child welfare, domestic violence and discrimination laws.

We’ve put our ads on a billboard and will circle the State Capitol for eight hours today.

Sen. McKoon and Rep. Teasley have both stood on the floor of their chambers and accused Better Georgia of lying about the damaging consequences of their bills.

“We only have to look to the last century to see what happens when you have countries, when you have nation-states that don’t value people of every faith and that don’t give people of every faith a seat on the table. So I simply say to Better Georgia shame on you. I hope that they’ll retract these ridiculous, unsupported, unsubstantiated accusations and try to responsibly participate in this debate.”